Japan recycles old phones to make medals for 2020 Olympics

February 16, 2017

Gold, silver and bronze will be extracted from donated phones which will help make medals for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.The Japanese government has big plans for used phones. Members of the public are being asked to donate their old or unwanted mobile phones. They’ll be used to create the medals that will be awarded in the 2020 Olympic games. No, that doesn’t mean the medals will look like compacted Nokia 3310 handsets. Gold, silver and bronze will be extracted from the phones, and these extracted metals will be used in the finished medals, Reuters reports.